Composition of matter.



UNET ST CARLETON ELLIS, OF LARGHMONT, NEW YORK.

COMPOSITION OF MATTER.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, (JARLE'roN ELLIS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of liarchmont, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Composition of Matter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to' a composition for cleaning and polishing paint and varnish surfaces without injury thereto, and comprises sulfonated oleaginous material as hereinafter set forth.

When oils, fats and the like (herein generically termed oleaginous material) are treated with concentrated sulfuric acid, the oleaginous material is sulfonated and may be neutralized with an alkali to form water soluble bodies which have apeculiar solvent action on many hydrocarbons, etc. My invention involves these mixtures or solutions. In the practice of my invention I sulfonate animal or vegetable oils or greases or other organic bodies capable of sulfonation, such for example as cotton seed, corn, linseed, tung, rape, peanut, lard, palm, cocoanut, castor, red, fish, neatsfoot, olive, sesame, tallow, whale oils and the like; or greases as stearin, olein, palmitin, wool fat etc.; or coal tar oils and derivativesas creosote, benzol and its homologues and the like. After 'sulfonation of the oleaginous material I add thereto a quantity of a hydrocarbon oil or its equivalent and mix and blend the two components together. Many of the hydrocaronoils dissolve perfectly in such sulfonated oleaginous material giving solutions from which the hydrocarbon oil does not separate. Such solutions are remarkably efficlent in the cleansing of finish as they dissolve all adhering matter without injury to the paint or varnish.

My referred embodiment is prepared in the fol owing manner: One pound of castor oil is well cooled and is treated with six ounces of concentrated sulfuric acid of 66 the sulfonate $pecification of Letters Patent. I Application filed October 6. 1907- Serial Ila-3 96.103.

Patented Feb. 18, 1908.

concentrated solution of caustic soda. After settling to separate traces of brine or sulfate of soda solution the oil is mixed with an equal volume of a terpene body as spirits of turpentine. The latter mixes perfectly with the sulfonated oil, forming a clear transparent fluent and flowable body of a light. amber color, if the oil has been well sulfonated. This clear liquid may then be applied to the painted or varnished surface and rubbed OH with a cloth or swab whereupon the finish will be found cleaned and improved in appearance.

Another illustrative formula comprises by volume one part turpentine, two parts water and two parts sulfonated castor oil. This also makes a clear transparent liquor. A much greater proportion of Water has a tendency to cause a separation of the turpentine.

Various thickeners may be used to give body to the composition as for instance, Wax or metallic soaps as aluminiumpalmitate may be dissolved in the hydrocarbon oil and then blended with the sulfonated oil. Also wood flour, starch, casein, or other carbohydrate or proteid or other organic material or mineral material as whiting, infusorial earth, and other mineral filler may be added as thickeners. Ordinary soaps have pronounced thickening power but should not be generally used asby their hydrolysis alkali is set free making alkaline What might otherwise be .a neutral preparation. Yet Where the effects of a possible hydrolysis are not feared and a cheap thickener is desired, ordinary soap has some value.

The hydrocarbon oil which is mixed or dissolved in the sulfonated oil is preferablyturpentine as this oil or spirits is peculiarly soluble therein. Benzol or toluol is considerably more soluble than the petroleum hydrocarbons. Carbon disulfid is ordinarily not to be recommended because of the poisonous character of its vapors. Carbon tetrachlorid is liable to decomposition if ke t for too long a time in contact with the d' uted sulfonated oil. It is of course possible to add such bodies as the alcohols, as wood or denatured alcohol, or ketones as acetone or methyl ethyl ketone, or esters as methylor amyl acetate, or. others as sulfuric ether, or other equivalent-compounds, provided the amount used is not sufficient to exert a solvent action on the finish, which would bedetrimental. Wood turpentine is usually chea' er than ordinary spirits of turpentine. hese mix- It is of course posslble introduce abrasives as pumice, rotten stone, silex and the "like when an abrasive action is desired.

. tion. A substantial proportion of water is desirable, but not beyond the.

" cibility for ood results.-

The composition may be givensome slight variation in consistency by varying theproportion of water, it being borne in mind that a certain maximum of water with a given amount of sulfonated oil and h drocarbon as turpentine or benzol will be ound beyond which the addition of water causes separapoint of mis- Strong disinfectants such as creosote or carbolic acid, formaldehyde, fluorids etc. may

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Glazed finishes such as are found on manyvarieties of leather as well as other surfaces are effectively cleaned by my composition.

For cleaning patent leather finish a mixture composed of sulfonated oil 7 parts, benzol 2 parts, denaturedalcohol 2 parts, is satisfactory.

I claim:

1. ComB-psition of matter comprising a neutral s onated oil, water and a volatile aromatic'hydrocarbon miscible therewith.

2. Com osition of matter comprising a sulfonate oil, water and a volatile aromatic hydrocarbon; said composition being clear andtransparent, fluent and flowable.

3. Composition of matter comprising a "substantially neutral 'sulfonated oil and a volatile hydrocarbon miscible therewith.

'4. Comgpsition of matter comprising a substantia y neutral sulfonated. o1l', and a terpene body. i

5. Composition for cleaning finish 'comprising s rising sulfonated oleaginous mattelt and a ydrocarbon; said composition being free fromdisagreeable odor.

6. Com osition for cleaning finish comprising su fonated oleagmous matter; and a ydrocarbon miscible therewith. 7. Com osition for cleaning finish comprisinl-g su fonated oleaginous matter and a volat' e hydrocarbon. 8. Com osition for cleaning finish comonated oleaginous matter and a terpene body miscible therewith.

9. Com osition for cleaning finish com prisin su fonated oleaginous matter and a volizlti e organic hydrocarbon miscible there- 10. Composition forcleaning finish comprising a substantially neutral thorougly sulfonated oil and'a volatile hydrocarbon substantially misible therewith.

Composition for cleaning finish comprising a substantially neutral thoroughlysulfonated oil and an aromatic volatile hydrocarbon miscible therewith.

12. Composition for cleaning finish comprising a sulfonated oil having a faintly acid reaction and a hydrocarbon.

13. Composition for cleaning finish comprising a sulfonated oil having a faintly acid reaction and a terpene hydrocarbon miscible therewith.

14. Composition for cleaning finish com-' prising a sulfonated oil and sprits of turpentine.

15. Comppsition for cleaning finish comprising a su stantially neutral sulfonated oil, spirits of turpentine and water.

16. Composition for cleaning finish comprising two parts by volume of substantially neutral sulfonated oil, two .parts water and Signed at Larchmont in the county of Westchester and State of New York this 14th day of September A. D. 1907.

p CARLETON ELLIS.

. one part spirits of turpentine.

- Witnesses:

. THEODORE ELLIS,

BIRDELLA M. ELLIs. 

